Benny Ferguson

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WHAT IS A FAITH PROMISE?

• Benny Ferguson
• Missions Awareness Team

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• Go into the world. Go everywhere and announce the
  Message of God's good news to one and all.
• Mark 16 15 The Message

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• For, Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
  will be saved. How, then, can they call on the
  one they have not believed in? And how can they
  believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
  And how can they hear without someone preaching
  to them? And how can they preach unless they are
  sent?
• Romans 10 13-15 NIV

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• But how can people call for help if they don't
  know who to trust? And how can they know who to
  trust if they haven't heard of the One who can be
  trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells
  them? And how is anyone going to tell them,
  unless someone is sent to do it?
• Romans 1013-15 The Message

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Kingdom Thinking

• NOT selfish
• ambitions

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Kingdom Thinking

• NOT just in our
• hometown

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Kingdom Thinking

• ALL the world

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Our Mandate

• Jesus left you a mandate.
• More than projects
• More than programs

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Our Mandate

share Gods love and salvation with every person
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Our Mandate

• A command without option
• A capability accomplished only with Gods power
• A commitment necessitating faith

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Faith Promise

• Faith
• Trusting God for a
• financial miracle to
• obediently invest in
• the Great Commission.

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Faith Promise

• Promise
• Keeping your word
• once the financial
• miracle happens.

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Faith Promise

• Promise
• Being faithful to your commitment instead of
  succumbing
• to selfish desires.

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Faith Promise

• Grows stewardship through missions giving

Main Entry stewardship    Function
nounEtymology Middle English the
individuals responsibility especially in certain
religious groups for sharing systematically and
proportionately his time, talent, and material
possessions in the service of God and for the
benefit of all mankind
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Faith Promise

• Grows dependency
• on God, your True Source, who is pleased to
  channel missionary funds through you

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Faith Promise

• Is a commitment that is big enough to stretch
  your faith and challenging enough to force you to
  your knees

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Faith Promise
Vs.

• Sight Giving
• Giving what you think you can afford
• Faith Promise
• Committing to give what you believe God will give
  through you

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Faith Promise
Vs.

• Pledge
• Makes you the source of your giving
• Faith Promise
• Makes God the source of your giving